[Seryn Lvl 300 USEast2SkeletonPosts: 166]

Glad you’re having fun mate. 🙂

[Seryn Lvl 300 USEast2SkeletonPosts: 166]

This argument disavows your own capacity for agency.

Just sayin’.

[Seryn Lvl 300 USEast2SkeletonPosts: 166]

In this unrestricted of a sandbox the consequences really are what we make them. If someone finds ggGatol’s base we can raid it in turn and get your stuff back–and if desired kill him to knock him down a few destruction levels. Until then I’d be happy to help you build a more secure vault, and you can also consider moving somewhere more populated where neighbors would be more likely to notice offending behavior.

Central Crossroads is a lot emptier than it used to be, but I’ve moved there recently and having more people around would be great if that sounds cool to you. There’s plenty of room for individual houses or whole tribe bases.

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[Seryn Lvl 300 USEast2SkeletonPosts: 166]

Thanks! Just noticed the spinning fix today, it makes a huge difference. 🙂

[Seryn Lvl 300 USEast2SkeletonPosts: 166]

Seems pertinent. Found in place of Kethen’s old base.

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While it’s true there’s some people paranoid, I hardly feel like it’s negatively impacting the server at all and might not even be a problem worth mentioning. Saying that paranoid people are hurting the game might even be flat wrong, in my opinion, considering the large amount of tribes and neat structures that have arisen from this.

Even since “ragnarok” was declared by Julius, the server has been very welcome to new players, offering help and places to stay on many occasions. Player retention seems way higher than it was before, surely in some ways due to the progress of the game making it more casual and lessening the gap between the new player and the veteran, but I’d also give the community some well deserved credit for their newbie outreach.

Hell, we even have tribes now that include multiple nationalities now. I think the server is fine lol.

I can see that being the vantage point of preexisting players, but being viewed with marked suspicion by people I don’t know for reasons I can’t understand isn’t the greatest newbie intro to a community. My luck for first finding the game mere days before the end of Julius’s suspension but it came down to me nearly being killed while chopping wood for simply being a mum introvert, which isn’t ideal. It took a few days to feel like I was on safe ground with Apollo after that and I’m still not sure what ground I’m on with Robin, although if it helps Robin my highest skill is 43 digging. :3

But in any case my only early interactions with other players was being tersely asked if I was FL with any attempt at a response being obviously distrusted, besides a few friendly chats with Emily and Amnesia. And occasionally being apologetically told that everyone was on edge because of FL. But literally the next person to feel genuinely friendly was Julius himself when he stopped by to introduce himself and help farm some clay on Tiberius the day his suspension was lifted, which led to me trying to help break him out along with some others when I heard he was jailed a few hours later.

To Tux’s credit he just ran me off instead of killing me since he knew I was new.

Then a few days ago while I’m still trying to get a handle on what everyone’s alignments are Amnesia’s house got looted and they were imprisoned, which seemed like a pretty clear case of griefing to me so I tried to break them out and got imprisoned myself for my trouble until Emily and Tux helped me out–still not sure what’s up with that situation but it appears Amnesia has quit either way. Which bums me out because we had a really nice chat about the fall anime season the other day which was the most I’d crawled out of my shell before getting more comfortable with general chat.

Also Kethen was nice too but he just quit while I was typing this post. 😐

I understand he’s been raided repeatedly, most recently under the guise of searching for FL.

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Anyway, whether or not problematic actions have occurred we should be able to agree these types of actions should be an issue if they are happening, so agreeing that they should not happen is a step with only positive benefits–including the benefit that actions taken by potentially less scrupulous players under the guise of witchhunting for FL rerolls should go back to being disapproved of regardless. As a new player it’d help if what was OK and what isn’t wasn’t relative, especially when it comes to break-ins and imprisonments. Cause frankly 90% of the time I still have no idea what’s going on here or who I can trust to not have a backpocket agenda behind anything they tell me.

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